Study suggests that you shouldn't lift and then run on the same day

Stupid study. Lifting shouldn't be your first workout.

I bet if you did an early am run then did intervals in the afternoon your intervals would be slower vs if you did intervals first then second at run later.

Do your most important workout of the day first.

Alan

So don't do leg lifts 6 hours before a race or hard workout? Duly noted

Stupid study. Do a hard track workout in the morning (say 4x1 mile) and then do this test 6 hours later. Oh my good you run slower. Obviously doing workouts impairs running ability.

Lifting before running was always a sure fire way for me to pull a muscle.

Who read the article?

"If possible, Doma says, try to arrange your schedule so that on days that you run and lift, running comes first."

Who disagrees?

We suffer from the "curse of news". Some editor (or indeed some LRC poster) has to sensationalise an otherwise totally sensible piece of research which reinforces what we knew already.

Runningart2004 wrote:

Stupid study. Lifting shouldn't be your first workout.

I bet if you did an early am run then did intervals in the afternoon your intervals would be slower vs if you did intervals first then second at run later.

Do your most important workout of the day first.

Alan

Well it's incredibly common for pro athletes to do their main workout in the afternoon after a morning run, and a lot of them also swear by morning shakeout runs before races, soo..... I think that's BS. A jog is not going to do anything to your running ability.

Unlike hard lifting, which obviously will.

This was the worst study ever. Ask anybody in the world - "I'm going to give you a test where you are going to run to exhaustion. Do you think if 6 hours prior to the test I made you do heavy leg exercises it would decrease how long you can run until you are tired or have no effect?"

Who the hell would do heavy leg weights 6 hours before trying to run until exhaustion (or race)? I hope these people did not get any funding for that dumb ass study.

Gosh, I wonder what would happen if you took a group but trained them for 18 weeks where they lifted heavy weights 3 times a week and did a run to exhaustion test once a week 6 hours after a heavy weights. Think they'd do better in the RTE test than the untrained group? Guess we'll only know if someone does a study.

So, between hard workouts you need to recover for more than 6 hours. Good to know. Mystery solved.

I've lifted and run on the same day for years. In fact I almost have to do it on the same day just to get it done.

"Lifting shouldn't be your first workout."

Lifting to exhaustion shouldn't be your first workout but you can do some lifting as part of your warmup.

Kenyans typically do an easy run first thing in the morning, then their key workout mid morning before an easy afternoon run or other work.